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...confused with Chicago's late comic-strip creator of the Gumps...
...There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
This imitative hysteria was something of a comic-strip episode because of the innocent brush which occasioned it. Contrary to a long-standing agreement, 16 armed plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes had sauntered into the U. S. defense sector of Shanghai's International Settlement. U. S. Marines arrested them, disarmed them, interned them. One was permitted to telephone his headquarters. Their commander called on Marine Commander Colonel DeWitt Peck and apologized for their mistake. The men were released. The incident was apparently closed...
Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
Such playboy feats are all very warming to the neutral U. S., where Superman is the No. 1 comic-strip character, a hero to millions of youthful muscle-worshipers; but to a country at war, like Canada, this reduction of a life-&-death struggle to the absurdity of a comic strip is no joke. Superman's irresistible strength came up against the impenetrable wall of Canadian censorship, and one day last fortnight there was no Superman in the Toronto Star...